On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:00:32PM -0400, Steven Settlemyre enlightened us:
> I have a monthly backup config with runtapes=3 and 59 tapes in the 
> tapecycle. The instructions I was originally given say to run a script 
> that looks in tapelist, find the highest # then label the next 3 tapes 
> starting from there. This seems wrong because then it wouldn't be a 
> cycle. My question is when I do amcheck, it tells me "(expecting tape 
> Monthly04 or a new tape)". But the next tape I have in my hand is 
> currently labeled Monthly50 which is correct because it is in the 
> tapelist as "20051107 Monthly50 reuse". How do I solve this problem? How 
> do I tell amanda to look for "Monthly50" instead of "Monthly04"? Or how 
> do i have amanda use the tape I give it as long as it's not recently used?
> 

That's the "Or New Tape" part. If you've labelled a tape but not used it, it
is considered a new tape. Amanda will also accept any tape that is more than
tapecycle tapes old, so in my case my tapecycle is 16 tapes, but I actually
use 20 in rotation, so that if one fails, I don't have to replace it
immediately.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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